fic_promptly, writing communities

[lucathia_rykatu]

I've been browsing Dreamwidth writing communities since LJ has been down quite a lot and I needed places to lurk, or else I'd have felt so stranded. Lots of awesome writing communities!

fic_promptly - prompt posts everyday, with lots of people pitching in prompts. I really want to write something for this. There's one Noblesse prompt that I would

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[perarduaadast]

Oh man, that's a lot of writing!

Except now i'm looking at each of them and pondering things myself-- argh this is all your fault forever, Lucathia! D:

Here I thought NaNo would be the only online writing thing that could grab my attention.

[lucathia_rykatu]

It is! So many awesome writing communities out there. I wish I were capable of participating in more instead of just admiring them from afar.

mission accomplished

Oh, have you done NaNo before? Or are you considering doing it this year? My NaNo from last year... while I did manage to write 50k, it is a completely plotless story, and it's still not complete, ahhhh. )':

[perarduaadast]

I didn't even know about them. D: Now I do. This could be both good and bad.

I did NaNo this past year, but then the death of my computer meant the death of everything I had written. It was a real drag. I'm considering SuMo and NaNo this year.

[lucathia_rykatu]

31_days is another favorite of mine, the non exchange version of 31days_exchange.

I've been wondering if any players from Colors has a AO3 account. I would love to see "Colors Universe" listed as a fandom for fic! Would love to see it spread. XD;

Ahhh, your poor computer and your poor writing! What's SuMo?

[perarduaadast]

Duly noted. :0

I have never ever heard of AO3 (but I have, of course, not heard of many things)... and I agree that a situation like that would be super cool. I wonder if we could get a group together to make "Colors Universe" become an actual fandom there! :D I would certainly be entirely willing to write a few more things and make it happen.

Perhaps I should cross-post Tobi's Tale somewhere somehow? D: But I still feel uneasy if I did well with that story or not. Wagh.

[lucathia_rykatu]

AO3 hasn't caught on a lot yet, or if it has, people are mostly using it to archive fics instead of as their main go to for fics. At least that's my impression in the fandoms I read... AO3 has a very cool interface though, and there's also a section for "other media", which Colors Universe would go under nicely. :D I would love to see Colors Universe as an actual fandom somewhere else other than just in our little corner. It would be amazing! Especially since there are quite a lot of fics I wish more people than just us would be able to read since they're awesome.

Yesss, you should cross-post Tobi's Tale somewhere! It is quite amazing (and epic).

[perarduaadast]

I'll definitely keep AO3 in mind. :) Perhaps advertise it a little or gather interest in the next open art/fic post that you put up? That could be a start.

Aside from my own LJ, I don't have any particular places in mind that I could post Tobi's Tale or any of my stories really. D: Do you think any of the places you mentioned (AO3 included) would be good places?

I fret easily about my work; as you may notice.

[lucathia_rykatu]

Oh, that's a good idea. I'll include a link and talk about it in the next open art/fic post. *__*

AO3 would be a good place to do it! I'm pretty sure they would recognize Colors Universe as a fandom... since they also have fandoms for a lot of other fan started things like webcomics, though I guess Colors Universe is a bit different... Deviantart might also be a good choice, and it's also good for posting art. Perhaps I could start a Colors group on deviantart that people could submit to? *muses* We'd probably get the same traffic (people from the TCG), but it'd be nice to have our work on a bigger archive site for people to stumble on!

Fretting leads to improvement though! <3

[franzeska]

*wanders by*

I'm not sure exactly what Colors is, but in general, if a bunch of people are calling something a fandom, that's good enough for AO3. (Though if it's sufficiently obscure, tag wranglers may not know what to do with the fandom tags for it.)

[lucathia_rykatu]

Colors is an online trading card game, which normally doesn't have anything to do with fic, but the part that does have to do with fanwork is our Colors Universe part. We've been holding monthly contests to design characters. Now we have a set of eight characters that members of the community write and draw about. Here's where all our fanwork goes. Since the characters are all fan created, I wasn't too sure if this would count as a fandom or if it would be too much on the original work side, though various people contribute fic, and we also have monthly writing prompts... it would be very obscure, definitely.